I Just Watched The NBA’s Next DYNASTY…

I Just Watched The NBA’s Next DYNASTY…

The Oklahoma City Thunder are a problem one of the youngest teams in the league all their best players are 25 years old and younger and they already look like a contender something that we have kind of seen before in Oklahoma City but this version is totally different and this

Game against Houston was a perfect example Oklahoma City is not supposed to have everything that they have when you are a team that goes through a rebuild when you try and put Talent together normally it goes a couple of different ways either you have a ton of talent but

It doesn’t really fit together super well because you weren’t worried about you were just drafting to try and make sure you had the best players you were making trades to make sure you had the best players like the New Orleans Pelicans they’re talented the team doesn’t fit super well together not an

Issue for the Thunder or you have like a lot of complimentary pieces but you still don’t have the guy the MVP caliber player not a problem for the Thunder they have sgaa or you just have the guy you just have the MVP caliber player you don’t really have the complimentary

Pieces not an issue for the Thunder they somehow managed to put together a roster that despite their youth has quite literally every that they need to compete this year and in the future and anytime I talk about the thunder I have to start with this they are probably the

Best spacing team in the entire league we know that everybody in the league now can shoot there’s all these teams that want to get up a ton of Threes the numbers in Oklahoma City are out of control and it’s a large enough sample size now that it’s not a fluke Jaylen

Williams is shooting 45% from three on three and a half attempts per game lot dor shooting 40% on five attempts a game Chad shooting 40% on 4 and a half sgaa 38% this year in addition to everything else that he does and you’ve got bench guys like Isaiah Joe Wallace all these

Guys are unbelievable Shooters not oh man it’s okay if we kind of lead them open they’re going to make about 37% of their threes no there is not a single player amongst their best guys that you can just leave open they’re going to destroy you from the three-point line

And part of it is obviously because they have really good Shooters but also the spacing on the floor and the amount of different creators and playmakers that they have just in these few Clips you can see Shay creating for an open shot shot you can see Jaylen williamss

Creating for an open shot Chad creates as well any one of those guys that any time down the floor can create for the other and they all can shoot as well and I will remind you that Jaylen Williams is 22 Chad is 21 Lou Dort is 24 and SGA

Is 25 one of the youngest teams that we’ve ever seen be this successful in terms of the minutes played by the average age this is Jet’s first full NBA season and he’s doing stuff like this this is a team that loves playing together look at some of these passes

That they’re making Jaylen Williams was at Santa Clara two years ago playing college basketball and I honestly don’t really know how you’re supposed to guard these guys with the spacing that they have and the multiple creators that they have in addition to they play with such

Energy and effort and this is the thing that people have missed about Oklahoma City for the last two seasons when they’ve been either kind of tanking or just not really trying to compete everybody has just assumed oh well they’re trying to lose games they’re trying to get better draft luck they

Have been decent and they have played with good energy and played the right way for 2 years now because their coach is really good and the only reason they were picking at the top of the draft lottery is because they would shut guys down they would tell Al Horford to go

Home they would not play sgaa as many minutes and one it’s worked out perfectly but two it’s incredible that they were able to develop all the correct habits for two years because their coach is so good and all that stuff is now translating they don’t look

Like a young team they don’t look like a team that is selfish they don’t look like a team that is seen as some kind of up and cominging Hot Shot team they play the right way they have great size and length they’re everywhere defensively but that doesn’t mean that they don’t

Have flaws there’s two main things that I’m looking at for Oklahoma City towards the end of this year and into the future for them as well one is they need some kind of matchup alongside Chad hongren to deal with some of the bigger bigs throughout the league if they had to

Play the nuggets in a playoff series tomorrow I have no idea who’s going to guard joic joic is a problem for every single team in the league he is one of the biggest match up nightmares in the entire league but especially for an Oklahoma City team that is playing cat

At the five and even Off the Bench they don’t have a single person that plays regular minutes that is going to have the size to be able to guard against him now granted one of the things that makes them so awesome is that they have all

These floor spacers and chat is part of that and if you bring in like a traditional big to deal with someone like joic that’s going to mess with some of those numbers of course but they at least need to have that option I’m not saying they need a guy that’s going to

Play 25 minutes a game but in certain matchups they need a bigger player and then the other part of this we talked earlier about oh they have all these pieces that fit super well together there’s one piece that absolutely does not fit and it gets more and more

Glaring with every single game and it was apparent in this Houston game as well Josh giddy just does not fit on this roster they got him so that he could be a complimentary piece alongside SGA they basically got him to be what Jaylen Williams has now turned into as a

Secondary Creator and a floor spacer with good size and can playmake Josh gy just can’t shoot and that has limited everything that he can do alongside this group because everybody else can create and shoot as a floor spacer and giddy just doesn’t space the floor and even

When he does try and space the floor his release takes way too long and he’s basically playing like a power forward out there there are games where he plays well hits a couple of shots and it looks like it fits but right now I think if you went into a postseason series for

Oklahoma City and they don’t need the size of Josh giddy I think you’re going to see a lot of case Wallace I think you’re going toot see a lot of Isaiah Joe playing alongside those other guys just because there’s this one glaring piece that just doesn’t really fit super

Well with the other guys and that’s not to say that josh giddy isn’t good at basketball I think he definitely has a chance to be a good player but I do think that he is the piece he’s the one thing that they need to fix over the next couple of Seasons potentially

Coming up in this off season to trade away and fix that spot they need another guy that can space that gives them good size that isn’t Josh Giddy and if they could also turn him somehow into that that fit alongside chat homr on the front court that would work really

Really well as well but those are literally the only two problems that they have and I don’t see a scenario in which they are not contenders over the next couple of seasons for years and years and years yes at some point the roster is going to get expensive with

Chad and Jaylen Williams and SGA but they still have time before all that stuff is a huge issue and they have plenty of opportunity to make trades and move some stuff around and create the ideal roster right now in this particular season I think they’re in the second tier of contenders behind teams

Like Denver and Boston but moving forward I don’t see how they are not in the top tier of contenders for years I think this year it’s going to be difficult for them to make a run you know all the way to the finals or anything like that strictly because

They’re still so young and they still need to gain so much experience especially in the postseason but this game against Houston is just a perfect example of a team that plays the right way has great Playmakers Great Floor spacing plays well defensively and again that missing piece that like nobody has

Talked about they have fantastic coaching as well Oklahoma City is one of my favorite teams to watch on a nightly basis and I think specifically in this Houston game and I really hope that they have a successful postseason and we get to see them in a postseason series

Against a team te like Minnesota a team like Denver and we really get to see how they kind of deal with teams that have more size and how those teams react to playing against Oklahoma City as well because their floor spacing is going to bother teams like Minnesota it’s going

To bother teams like Denver and the contrasting style of those two kinds of teams I cannot wait to see but the bottom line is if you’re a fan of a team that you think is going to be a contender over the next couple of Seasons they’re going to have to deal

With the Oklahoma City Thunder they are going to be a thing they’re going to be around for years and years and years and honestly I can’t wait and I also can’t wait to see what they do in the offseason cuz now they have the possibility of like extending Gordon

Hayward to create this big salary that they could send out to match alongside Josh giddy of course they have a million picks as well the offseason the Oklahoma City Thunder depending on what they do in the postseason this year is probably the one that I am anticipating the most

Because it feels like they are at a point where they could legitimately start to put together a top tier Contender for like a full decade if they make the right decisions and put more really good pieces on this roster Which history tells us they’re absolutely going to be able to do

The OKC Thunder are an INCREDIBLE team and might be the next NBA dynasty…

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